Fitzroy V Parkdale 30/05/15

[killer]

At the Gerry Gee Reserve Parkdale

Saturday Seniors v Parkdale, 2pm, Gerry Green Reserve, Parkdale
Reserves v Parkdale, 11.40am, Gerry Green Reserve, Parkdale
U19s v Parkdale, 9.20am, Gerry Green Reserve, Parkdale

Sunday
Thirds v AJAX Black, 11.40am, Gary Smorgon Oval, Albert Park

Fitzroy ACU - the Sisters of Perpetual Motion have a bye


Angiolella Edwards Moore
Baker Ellis Parkinson
Biscaro Fenton Patcas
Bisetto Green Palmieri
Brown Hesse Sheedy
Cheshire Johnson Stevic
Dalton Ligris Doherty Marshall


All things Fitzroy


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[killer]

Fitzroy win by 55 points over the Vs

 

[killer]

12.16 to 4.10


Goal Kickers: J. Dalton 2, D. Patcas 2, M. Davie 2, L. Baker 2, C. Doherty , R. Angiolella , D. Pound-Palmieri , T. Cheshire
Best Players: , R. Angiolella , D. Bisetto , R. Borland , T. Cheshire , L. Baker , A. Green

The win puts Fitzroy into 6th above Ajax Parkdale Mazenod and Caulfield
Next game is Hampton on 13 June (after the birthday weekend)

http://www.vafa.com.au/fixtures-results/fixtures/

 

[3KZ is Football]

Great win today boys!

Dare I say it ... Finals?

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

My last patient on Saturday morning needed several teeth out. He had a complicated medical history that included a major blood thinner called Warfarin. This medication does not worry an experienced dentist, and readers of this essayist will all know ‘you only worry about bleeding you can hear’. This bloke has ‘tough bone’; his teeth are difficult to remove. Not a job for a first year graduate dentist.

I had to bring out the ‘heavy artillery’ to get the teeth out and then we had to suture the wounds. Dental surgery, and even the suturing, is a beautiful thing to watch when done by an experienced surgeon, assisted by competent nurses. It requires six hands. It requires three people. My senior nurse was all over the case, handling a sucker, periosteal elevator and adjusting the light so the field was optimally illuminated. My senior wife was all over the case, handling a cheek retractor, Minnesota retractor, suture scissors and passing the various things we needed. Both nurses were placing the loose end of the suture into my field of view .I had an armchair ride. It was beautiful to do. Teamwork personified. Anyone watching would have thought, ‘teamwork’. These guys know what they are doing.

Fitzroy went down to Parkdale on Saturday and were four goals up at the quarter time. Most knowledgeable judges, and my fellow Tramconductor, thought it a goal short. However in the second quarter we ‘cut them up’ with some precision run on and carry, some spread and receive, some surgery on the Parkdale backline that left Parkdale ‘hung, drawn and quartered. We were kicking into the breeze and despite them kicking an early goal, we out-scored Parkdale two four, to two three. We had ‘drilled ‘em, filled ‘em and billed ‘em’.

Our ‘smalls’, our ‘runners’ or, as I like to call them, our army of gladii (term denoting the short swords used by the Roman army,) several times, cut through the Parkdale defence like a 15c scalpel blade. As a dental surgeon, the second quarter was beautiful to see.

The Parkdale ground is an ugly affair. The ground is uneven. The rooms provided are brick blocks that remind me of Soviet style socialist architecture. Nepean Highway provides an unattractive backdrop and we had to play in those terrible ‘clash’ jumpers. I call them the yellow perils. I have never seen the Redders win at Parkdale. I have never seen us win in those jumpers so I was not looking forward to the long drive down south and when I arrived we were being thrashed in the reserves. .

However Rory won the toss and we kicked with the breeze. The game started the way it finished: Dan B won the first tap out, giving us first use of the ball. Rory got the clearance and it finished up with Baker Senior and an early goal. This was a complete turnaround from early on in the season. We dominated the centre square all day, with Dan and Roscoe winning their share of the tap outs but both players going hunting the spillages and terrorizing the packs. The move of Dan to ruck has been a master stroke. He has two BOGs in a row and is my tip for the B Grade meda


Parkdale defended well in the first quarter, and with Corbs being well, held it fell to the gladii to do the scoring. Dillon P scored two early goals from spillages and Parkdale mistakes. Tommy Cheshire was smothering everything, and I do mean everything, throwing himself at every contest and also scored an important early goal.

Parkdale, kicking into the breeze, stacked their backline in the third quarter, which made it hard for Fitzroy to score but late in the quarter, just when worried looks were appearing on the Tramconductors, young Max Davie stood up to be counted. He scored a long goal from a tough mark, a pressure goal. He then scored the first goal of the last quarter to seal the deal. Max is the captain of the under nineteens and was playing his first senior game. He looks a good player.


Parkdale only scored four goals for the day and it was our defensive pressure all over the ground that won us the game. Our defence led by Max ‘Scrooge” Ellis, is our major weapon. I have heard rumours that our defence is so tight, so averse to giving anything away; they don’t even give way at stop signs. If you ask them for the time of day, they tell you to buy your own watch. Young Max leads a defence that would be at home in a Dickens novel. I might write a book titled Down and Out in the Fitzroy Backline. Orwell could recognise a brutal totalitarian regime at the BSO. Opposition forwards are sent to the ‘Siberian Gulags’ when they line up on Max and the boys.


It is the bye next week which I believe comes at the wrong time for us. We have some momentum and I would prefer to be playing next week. Our percentage is picking up but we are not out of the relegation zone. Finals are a possibility, but we would have to eight of our last ten matches. This is not impossible so let’s look forward to the rest of the season and come on the Roys.

 

[killer]

There's a bye next week, followed by games against Hampton, St Kevs, and Ajax ,then a 2 week bye

 

[By George!111]

Queens rule the Co-op; Princes the Park

The Fitzroy Femocracy with the recent co-opting of two new Directors Ms’s Kate Nolan (Menzies Foundation ) and Kelly Bembridge (Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services) continues to thrive. Big shout out and welcome aboard girls?, ladies ? women from all Fitzroy folk including dare we say its (cultural wars intimidated) wo/man/kind men (‘yeah right’ (or left ?) whatever)!

Shortly after arrival at Gerry Green Reserve we ran into our own fabulous ‘flicker fingers’ photographer Phyllis Quealy snapping the two’s as they were also being snapped in two by the Parkdale Vultures. Phyllis has a heavy burden to bear presently and it is not her son Dylan Patcas, pro bono consultant advisor to all opposition tallest and heftiest players. In your orisons of supplication to whatever you believe in remember Phyllis; as for Dylan if ‘Uncle Doug’ (former World of Sport MC and Victorian MP) was still alive and giving out gifts on WoS to Fitzroy players Dylan would win the “Ballantynes” chocolates award every week.

In a very even team performance “El” Green was in and under, up and over, out and about, down and dirty, working harder (for his) ‘yarda yarda’ and elegant in eliminating the opposition forward elites for four quarters on Saturday. He was clearly best on ground for mine. Max Ellis, Tom “kick it long” Biscaro, Tom Cheshire, Tom Parkinson and Will Johnson among others sounded the combined defensive drums of opposition doom. They were well supported by the “Scipios” Dan and Rory together with Sam ”greater love hath no brother ” Baker who had his 2 goals credited to ‘bro’ Luke whom himself had a great assist first quarter to demolition Dan in the ruck as did Ross Borland in the latter stages of the game .

Nick Marshall is class and Will Fenton in the second quarter forward defensive battle (where the game was won ; just ask the opposition coach) was Master class. The fact that the recipients of his foot and hand passing bounty didn’t all convert, save DPP, does not diminish the quarter high 9 possessions he dished off mainly in heavy traffic with precision.

First gamer young Max Davie showed he has the right stuff when he kicked goals at the 24 minute mark of the short 3rd (and happily prevent another eerie goalless quarter) and 50 second point of the last quarter to snuff out any hope the Parkdale faithful harboured. Luke Edwards (whose premiership Reserves Coach father Bruce Edwards will be conducting hearing tests for his players this week to ascertain why they can’t listen to what he tells them) also kicked his first senior goal in this game and Jack Dalton whose tally (actual 7 for year) has previously been diluted got just the one this week but importantly into the 6 goal wind. Well done all who played and replaced some very important injured players like Matt Brown, Greg Hesse and Dale Sheedy in the selected side.

Finally whilst travelling down south yesterday we overheard one of the radio Coodabeens make an interesting spoonerism “… the boast of ‘Beth worlds”. Our most erudite and ever interesting co -Roy writer E. Regnans might humorously observe ‘Coves’ was probably referring to our own Queen ’Beth 11. Her Majesty having observed live on 5 April 1970 the mighty Roys achieve victory in her only ever Vfl/Afl match, might by royal decree after a 45 year hiatus, proclaim the denouement to be for the boys to be in the finals that ‘3KZ is football’ and so many Fitzroy(al) people crave.

As the humorous juxtaposer Professor Spooner himself would say however “Kinquering Congs their titles take”. Let us start at Boss James Reserve Hampton on 13 June 2015 and celebrate early the 800th Anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta while we still have some freedom to think and express our thoughts before the social engineers deny us this most basic right; after all gen Y have sadly swallowed their agenda by abandoning their critical thinking to the 140 digit texting world and facebook.

‘El’ Green forever ;Solyent Green - never.


Go Roys!

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

Love the description of young Dillon P